Day One Focus: Making Predictions/Reading (5.01, 5.02, 5.03)

I. Activating Prior Knowledge:
    • Anticipating Conflict
    • Discussion of answers

II. Mini-lesson
-Conflict


-Conflict Literature Bingo (Time Permitting)

III. Mini-lesson: Setting of "Three Skeleton Key," p. 30 of Holt Reader or here online
-Make predictions: “It will be a story about... set in..."
-Preview vocabulary (hordes, fathom, derisive, edible, recede)
-Brief discussion of suspense and foreshadowing
-Location and History: French Guiana
-View images of lighthouses and of the coast of French Guiana

Courtesy of WorldAtlas
Courtesy of WorldAtlas

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V. Assessment:
Internal v. External Conflict Quick Check


Homework:
-Read “Three Skeleton Key”